This Meetup group will operate under the assumption that Shakespeare's plays and poetry continue to make worthwhile contributions to the realms of entertainment and literature, and to audiences and artists, today. All interested in the Bard and his canon---ladies, lords, players, free men, free women, married men and/or married women, teachers, tyrants, thinkers, students, scientists, believers, atheists, mortals, fools... ---ALL are most welcome.

Beginning Saturday, the 1st of November 2014, the moderator aims to hold weekly meetings with members of this group. She wishes to focus on all the plays one by one, beginning with The Comedy of Errors. The primary aim is to understand clearly why so many scholars have claimed Shakespeare's texts as context for modern thoughts and conventions, and, as some dare say, for modern humanity itself. The moderator wishes to challenge the group not only to understand the literature critically, but also to think creatively by exploring connections within the world of a single play, between the plays in the collection, and between the collection and the worlds outside of it.

Here is the suggested order for the plays:

'The Early Comedies' 1. The Comedy of Errors 2. The Taming of the Shrew 3. The Two Gentlemen of Verona